Once-Flourishing Economics Ph.D. Program Prepares to Die

Lindsey J. Woodworth, a Ph.D. student in economics at the U. of Florida: "When I enrolled in this program I never thought it wouldn't exist by the time I finished."

By Stacey Patton

For decades the Ph.D. program in economics at the University of
Florida flourished. Highly regarded econometricians, like the late
Henri Thiel and G.S. Maddala, taught there. Until the late 1990s,
the department had been ranked among the top 20 of American public
universities by prominent economics journals and associations.

Now, the 71-year-old doctoral program, housed in the Warrington
College of Business Administration, is near death.